The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-29
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MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The July Wide Awake opens with a long and
delightful account of Washingtons Boyhood,
Pursuits and Companions, written by William T..
Carne, citizen of the old village Of Behaven
where the young Washington lived in his early
years. The paper is full of anecdotes and traits of
the great President. A stirring Fourth of July
story, The Use of 1t, is from the pen of Mrs Har-
riet A. Cheever, The Story of Keedon Bluffs, by
charles Egbert Craddock, is very fresh and bright
In Its humor, and very strong and novel in its
plot. The Harvard Annex has long article to
itself from the pen OF one Of its graduates Miss
Frona Marie Brooks: How One "Annex Maid,
began her Career; it is fully illustrated and will be
interesting 10 those young women who desire a
Harvard College education, and also 10 tine gen
eral puDlc The Queens Jubilee is commemo-
rated by pretty paper OF anecdotes from the pen
OF an Engllshwoman, Mrs Raymond Blathwnyt
when Is accompanied by full-page engraving of
tne famous sitting statue of the Queen, by BOeRm
Castle.
Scrlbner's Magazine for July has for its opening
article an entertaining and instructive paper by
Prot ID. A. Sargent, NJ. d., of Harvard College
entitled The Physical Proportions of the Typical
man, In which the author has for the first time
published in detail some of the results of his long
experience as teacher and student of physical
training, on which he is perhaps the highest au-
thority. The second and concluding article Inv
John G. Roper, on Some Illustrations of Napoleon
and his Times takes up the career of the great
Emperorafter the peace OF Tilsit The fourth in
staiment OF the Unpublished Letters of Thackeray
contains the fac smile of four-page letter in
cludlng TWO Thackeray drawings. Those inter-
ested IN the picturesque social history of New
YORK and New England during the early years of
this century, will find some exceedingly bright
and entertaining pictures of that period in the Sc
lections from the letters of Eliza Southgate Bovine
published here under the title of Girls Life
Eighty Years Ago.
In the American Magazine for July, under the
TUE Metlakahtla. z. /. White tells, with illustra
ions, the story of the complete civilization of an
Indian tribe on the Northwest Coast. There is
another instalment of Olivia Delapaine, by Edgar
Fawcett. Rev. S. W. Culver, President of Bish-
op College, Marshall, Texas, gives an interesting
account OF colored schools in the Southwest. Ar
thur Howard Noll describes Guadalupe. Mexico.
An Illustrated article on Literary Life in Phila
delphia, by Moses P. Handy editor of The Daily
News OF that city gives several brief sketches Of
men and women famous in the world of letters
Inc veteran poet, Walt Within an. Worthily heads
ihe list A promising field of industry for women
IN the cultivation of fruits and flowers is the su-
lect OF an article by George r. Knapp presenting
some instances, in detail, of remarkable success
lnere are three completed stories in this number
mrs Hardy's Encounter with Ghost. bv Sarah
MARSHALL Hayden; the Dominant: by Arthur
Dudley Nlnfon; and A Sudden Disappearance
by William o. Stoddard.